How to Feel Less Frantic and More Festive During the Holidays
Stop forcing holiday cheer and start embracing the season in a way that truly resonates with you. Discover simple, daily strategies for cultivating peace, balance, and genuine joy as you navigate the holidays with grace. Merry and bright? Yeah, right. During the holidays, many of us are anything but cheerful. Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, ......
Addressing climate change in ways that build capacity, equity, and compassion among people may be the great moral-spiritual challenge of our time in history. This slim volume is an invitation to face that challenge with hope and in companionship with people worldwide. In this latest addition to the Building a Moral Economy series, Reverends Malcom ......
In a world obsessed with efficiency and results, where even spiritual practices are often treated as skills to be mastered, Wesley Ellis invites readers into a transformative reimagining of prayer. Abiding in Amen challenges the prevailing assumption that prayer is something to be achieved, offering instead a vision of prayer as a gift to be ......
Liberating Feminine Wisdom from Christian Patriarchy
Untangle from patriarchal Christian attitudes toward women, and tap into the deep well of feminine wisdom. Christian patriarchy teaches that women are dangerous, manipulative, and untrustworthy. Whether painting women as the archetypal old witch in the woods or the biblical temptress, toxic religion vilifies their wisdom and uses fear to ......
In Unnatural Death Philip Porter demonstrates sin and death to be intimate with one another; because of sin, creation is held in thrall by death. Demonstrating the intimacy of sin and death matters because Christians should take natural science seriously while also affirming essential doctrinal claims such as "The last enemy to be destroyed is ......
The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms
In this unsettling investigation into white evangelicals' fusion of the gospel and guns, veteran journalist William J. Kole exposes how some Christians are standing in the way of reasonable restrictions on firearms--and how it makes us all less safe. On the evening that the bass player on his worship team casually showed him his handgun, the ......
Finding the Way of Jesus Where We Never Think to Look
"I loved this book for its wisdom, message, and welcome, its depth and its many charms, especially the clear and deeply human voice of the author, Pastor Kate." --ANNE LAMOTT In this stirring book of spiritual formation, a pastor asks: What if the abundant life lies in finding what's been lost, uncovering what is hidden, and learning to hope in ......
Drawing on Zamora's lived experience and deep connections to the undocumented immigrant community, this book invites readers into deep reflection regarding the enormous need for a new ecclesial model of ministry on the margins. A voice for a voiceless community, Zamora brings both lived experience and a pastoral heart to bear in this unique window ......
Human Dignity, Defacement, and the Grace of Racial Healing
The Black struggle for justice in the face of white supremacy has been a long-standing struggle for the acknowledgment of, and respect for, Black people's dignity as fully human beings made in the image of God. This book presents a theological exposition of human dignity, its defacement, the toxic ideology of racial superiority that erects such ......
